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Its interesting to note that the the boweb-production servers of "www" don't have read-replicas (asynchronous replication) for read scalability. Anyone know why? Typically, one wou…

Try systems companies (e.g. storage, networking) - you get to build products that leverage core CS concepts - algorithms, distributed systems etc. You also get a chance to use your…

pg, Just wondering as to why HN isn't hosted in the cloud? (e.g. on AWS, Rackspace etc.). How do you backup all the data?

Most systems companies (e.g., networking, storage) do development in C/C++/Java. Have you checked 'em out?

On a related note, here's a search tool (though not perfect) I wrote some time ago that helps filter out stories by points, age & #comments: http://searchyt.twittrank.info/

Check out: http://www.alexa.com/topsites

I am curious to know how YC companies, such as Carsabi & Priceonomics, deal with legal issues that might stem from site scrapping/crawling?

Hi there, My email info is in my profile.

Thanks! Sure, thats on the TODO list :)

Thanks for the feedback!

Hey folks, It would be great if you could let me know about the utility of a side-project I have just launched. Its called searchyt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174607 htt…

searchyt is a ThriftDB-based filtered search app for HN. This is the first iteration. Its a side-project of mine. It is not yet fully ready for prime-time but I figured it would be…